A lot of people will tell you “this game is Kairosoft’s best yet.” To many of their titles.However Forest Camp Story may actually take that title. For many years Kairosoft has released a ton of fun titles. Some challenging, some relaxing. However some mired by issues regarding combo systems and upkeep draining your funds before you actually know what you’re doing.Camp Story is the first Kairosoft game I’ve played where I didn’t feel like I needed a guide to move forward. You can learn from trial and error, and the systems are far more beginner-friendly.With a reliance on popularity and scenery in replace of combo systems, you can really truly decorate your camp to your heart’s desire without sacrificing looks to place “combo” buildings together.It only gets better when you add in the store. Camp Story combines both the fun of running a store and running a campsite without feeling like you’re going to run yourself into a corner without meaning to. As if it’s found a perfect union of what’s made it’s previous titles fun.It makes me excited for what future titles in Kairosoft hold. Taking the refined mechanics of this game and applying them to future titles and sequels.Perhaps a Dream Home Days sequel that removes the impossible block of utilities becoming too high for tenants to pay eventually? Or an Animal Park Story sequel that allows more freedom with making your own park? Or will they take the core concepts of Forest Camp Story further and make something that surprises all of us?Only the future may tell, and I’m excited to see what they create next.Until then, back to my campsite!

UPDATE: Changing this from a one star to five star! A few days after writing my original review complaining about a game (and save file)-breaking bug, the game’s been updated and the bug is gone!Now to the game itself: It’s an amazingly relaxing camping sim in the same vein as other Kairosoft games. Cute, fun, and with ever increasing numbers and research projects, making a camp that’s fun looking AND useful is an enjoyable challenge!One interesting aspect of this game is that you don’t just manage a campground, but you also manage a store in town that sells camping gear! In a cool attention to detail, the goods you sell in city will also show up on the campers that come to your campgrounds!

I’ve loved kariosoft games for years and years, my favorites being sushi spinnery, pocket stables, pocket clothier, and game dev, amongst a few others. This one is a good concept but unfortunately I didn’t find myself getting hooked, and I think that was due to progression. It felt a bit slow and formulaic, with not much in between spending and saving sprees. Usually these games have me hooked and coming back for hours on end, but with this one I played for about 3 hours straight, then couldn’t find myself wanting to open the app again. This could entirely just be my own experience, but I believe the concepts of the new ones right now like tropical resort and convince store might just be a better fitting theme for me. Overall, give it a try! It’s good fun as always but just felt slower and not much to keep me personally engaged for very long.

This is exactly the kind of kairosoft game I want. It’s fun, cute, lots to do, easy to learn. This whole game is so charming and makes me feel like I did playing some of my other favorites like Cruiseship story, hot springs, ski resort, and The Megamall. I love that we can alter terrain and add water to the landscape and that the pathing for the visitors is better. Visitors can walk through/around everything to get to where they need to go so it’s easier to place buildings and decorate. Thank you for those improved features. I definitely recommend this game.